Sunday Meditation & Inquiry Sessions @ 10:30 am (Will begin again Sept. 15/19.)
Everyone is welcome! We begin with a half-hour meditation. Instruction is available, if are new to practice. We then have an open-ended inquiry about our experience. Don’t worry, no one is expected to talk, unless you want to. Finally, there is a little teaching. We do sit on the floor, however chairs are available. It is drop-in, by donation and runs every week except for major holidays and the month of August. Please no perfumed colognes or body products as they can be distracting and cause allergic reactions in others. It is a very relaxed and casual space. We are at Arrive Yoga & Mindfulness. www.arriveyoga.ca
Wednesday Meditation & Inquiry Sessions @ 7:30 pm (Is running now.)
Everyone is welcome! We begin with a forty minute meditation. Instruction is available, if are new to practice. We then have an open-ended inquiry about our experience. Don’t worry, no one is expected to talk, unless you want to. Finally, there is a little teaching. We do sit on the floor, however chairs are available. It is drop-in, by donation and runs every week except for major holidays. Please no perfumed colognes or body products as they can be distracting and cause allergic reactions in others. It is a very relaxed and casual space. We are at Arrive Yoga & Mindfulness. www.arriveyoga.ca
An Introduction to Meditation (TBA)
Everyone is welcome, especially beginners! During the six weeks, we will be covering six essential practices including: calming the mind, self-compassion and mindfulness. There will be meditation, shared inquiry and a little teaching. We do sit on the floor, however chairs are available. Please no perfumed colognes or body products as they can be distracting and cause allergic reactions in others. This a series that you sign up with a set cost of $84 plus HST. We are at Arrive Yoga & Mindfulness. www.arriveyoga.ca
The next course starts Sunday October 20th at 7 pm.
Meditative Counseling
I am offering a new form of support and practice, called Meditative Counseling. Mostly it will be a short-term approach of about 5-6 weekly sessions, however it can run longer, if necessary. During this time, we will identify a particular area where you are having difficulty, or want to become stronger, and then create a customized bundle of meditations and mind-training tools to help you accomplish this. The work can be done in person or digitally through Skype.
Each weekly session will run for about 65-70 minutes, and involves:
a quick “check-in”.
a 20-30 minute meditation session.
a conversation about your meditation session, experiences from the last week and anything else that
comes up. We will tease out insights about what is arising in your body, heart and mind, and then
figure out how to work with it.
learning a new meditation technique, usually each week.
and finally a quick “wrap-up”.
To be clear this is NOT therapy or psychotherapy. However I believe that Meditative Counseling can be used in a complementary way with traditional therapy, with the exception of mental health problems that present as psychosis or serious delusional states. Meditation should always be used cautiously with trauma.
It is suitable for 1 or 2 people. The cost is $75 per session for one person and $130 for two. This includes HST.
